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^^ I've never noticed the City of Cincinnati fuel station shown in the bottom left of the route you highlighted on the map: https://goo.gl/maps/gFtoB1SmDohDLihw9 I guess the Streetview car missed the "no trespassing" sign: https://goo.gl/maps/w4CuSZxDjkasVQMa7

^ It probably does, as does the fact that almost every available commercial space is a lease. Many of the best hole-in-the-wall Chinese restaurants are in buildings owned by the folks running the restaurant, and many of them were purchased with cash. For example, Yum Yum is run by the same couple that owns the building. Off the top of my head, I'd say that most of the Chinese places in CUF are operated by the building owners, as well.

^ I think the city should look into changing the way they paint parking lanes everywhere. Streets like Ludlow function okay because they've been parking forever, they feel more urban, traffic is slower, the parking fills up quickly and stays that way, etc. Other streets like Central Parkway or any of the west side arterials like Colerain Avenue seem to have more accidents than they should, or result in drivers slamming on their brakes and having to merge from a stopped position. I agree with your second paragraph. Central Parkway is especially confusing because of the inconsistencies. If you follow it another few blocks further out of downtown, you find even more lane arrangements, like 1 inbound, 2 outbound lanes, sometimes with off-peak parking, then back to 2 inbound, 3 outbound where the bike lanes end.

It's actually a bit of an improvement over what's current there. More lanes, but a slightly smaller footprint: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1072035,-84.5229147,389a,35y,180.99h,62.14t/data=!3m1!1e3

The parking lanes on Central Parkway are striped as driving lanes, despite the fact that they are only driveable lanes for 2 hours a day on weekdays. 22 hours a day on weekdays, and 24 hours a day on weekends, they are parking lanes. IMO, they should be painted as parking lanes, since that's what they're used for most of the time. It's confusing for people who don't use the road often - it's easy to miss the hourly parking restrictions on the "no parking" signs, and the "caution cars parked" paint on the street is only marginally helpful: https://goo.gl/maps/2jNWpUbPwzw5M2Kh7 The city does this all over the place, but it's troublesome here because Central Parkway doesn't really feel like a street cars would park on, it feels like a highway.

For comparison sake, here's the roof structure at Chartres Cathedral (my personal favorite). The original lead and timber roof was burned by fire in 1836 and replaced with this cast iron structure, topped with a copper roof:

^ I think they could make it look almost identical from the air with modern materials. The only place anyone would see a difference is in the behind-the-scenes attic spaces like in the picture below. Instead of timber posts and joists, they'd frame it with steel beams and columns. Instead of lead plates atop wood boards for the roof itself, they'd use metal deck and modern roofing materials. Maybe add a fire suppression system while they're at it. I think a huge problem with rebuilding the roof in a way that's 100% faithful to the original design is that they'd be creating the same exact conditions that allowed the fire to spread uncontrollably - a lot of combustible wood material in a concealed space that's not able to be doused from firelighters outside.

I don't really think there's any question as to whether or not they'll use steel to re-frame the roof. It'll be cheaper, it's non-combustible (and can be spray-fireproofed), more lightweight, and most importantly - isn't visible from the public spaces, anyway.

I'm somewhat perplexed by her phrasing: "I’m saddened that the beautiful cathedral in France was damaged." Maybe as an architect my viewpoint is skewed a bit, but I assumed pretty much everyone in the Western World was familiar with Notre Dame. It's like the Great Wall of China or the Pyramids at Giza. If you can name 10 famous buildings on the planet, it's probably one of them. But the way she described it - as a "beautiful cathedral in France" leads me to believe that there's a very real possibility she simply had no idea what it was.

? Cincinnati City Councilwoman Tamaya Dennard says reaction to Notre Dame Cathedral fire 'prime example of privilege' https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2019/04/16/notre-dame-fire-cincinnati-councilwoman-says-shows-privilege/3482877002/ Cincinnati Councilwoman Tamaya Dennard on Twitter said she's sad the Notre Dame Cathedral has been damaged by fire, but the reaction has been a "prime example of privilege." She pointed to the recent string of arsons at predominantly black churches in Louisiana as an example. "I'm sure they held significance as well," she wrote in the Tuesday morning Tweet. "They were barely acknowledged."

These are the first photos I've seen of the damage:

Not to get too far off topic, but I only recently realized that the catalog home buying experience is not entirely a thing of the past. I was at Menards a few weekends ago and noticed that they sell entire houses: https://www.menards.com/main/building-materials/the-project-store/home-projects/c-1474668109497.htm

All the good brewery names were trademarked 5+ years ago. Now it's slim pickens (which, Google tells me, is itself already a brewery name).

I'm somewhat weary of a project that seems to be run by a marketing and branding crew, is very good at raising capital and presenting a brand image, and plans to figure out the whole brewing beer part later. Maybe the strategy is too esoteric for me to grasp. Best of luck, though, as that's a great building and a great corner that needs some successful retail and nightlife.

I've been actively attempting to stop saying "ope" (pronounced like "oops" without the "s") since I saw someone link this article months ago. I am down to only about 5 times a day - I must have been using it almost hourly prior and never thought twice about it: https://www.kansascity.com/living/article185849943.html

Personally, I'd always take a Red Bike over a scooter if I didn't have to pick the bike up and drop it back off at a docking station. The convenience factor that comes with the ability to leave your scooter right at your destination is huge. Now that many of the bikes are electronic, the "last mile" (or more like last few hundred feet in this case) is probably the biggest difference.Bikeshare needs to get away from the station-based system and mimic the scooter deployment.

The lack of shoulder pads in contemporary female professional attire is a shame. I'm pretty sure I've heard my wife say the same. It's tough to find anything with shoulder pads these days that's not from an estate sale.

There are plenty of task forces for project specific work like this. There's one for the Court Street pedestrian conversion, for example. This vote wasn't about the task force it was about who was on the task force.

"Operatives" probably isn't the best word. It seems more like a list of "Gang of 5 fanboys." I wonder what the actual context of the list was.

^ Fare-free would appeal to groups, and thus increase ridership exponentially. Right now, it's typically cheaper for a group of 4 or 5 people to take an Uber or pay for parking than it is to take the Streetcar. I don't know if it'd make a huge difference for lone riders or daily commuters, but I think it would certainly see an increase in groups of people traveling together.

The water pressure needed to flush 600 toilets simultaneously must be pretty significant.

Millennium, Westin/US Bank, and the old Macy's store have underground parking.

^ That's a shame. I thought most of the city was in agreement that the Millennium is a massive liability. It seems like something the mayor and council and urbanites alike could all agree on. It should be, but we all know what the vote was actually about.

I feel like that corner of Carew Tower has something missing. It's one of the busiest corners in the city, directly opposite Fountain Square, but there's little activity. The restaurant has dark windows, vinyl covering most of them, and one small entrance on Vine. It's hard to tell if it's open or not (for example, I've worked downtown for 8 years and walk by daily yet I couldn't tell you if they do lunch or not without looking it up). If that corner of the building was opened up to both the street and arcade with a few fast-casual places or even an open seating food court area it would be an amazing asset.

I don't think anyone said it is "only an urban/black problem." Litter is exacerbated in urban areas for a number of reasons, which makes it a much larger problem than littering in rural areas. Even if the rates of littering are the exact same, in an urban area it's going to pile up much more quickly, and do so in places that are inconvenient and unsanitary for residents. I'd also wager that rates of littering are much higher in urban areas because there's a subset of the population that typically wouldn't litter, but do so because they're in an environment that's already covered in litter. It's broken windows theory 101. There are also less significant, but still impactful factors. For example, it's easier to secure your refuse and hold onto it until you have access to a waste receptacle when you're in a car than when you're on foot.